"Rod Maupin" wrote in message
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Tam,

I see what you mean. I was leaning towards the Yaesu G-450A rotator
instead of the Hy-Gain AR-40. I read a less than favorable review on that
one. However, I also read some unfavorable reviews on the Yaesu G-450A.
People's main complaint was about the buttons on the control box not being
very good.

Actually, the VHF/UHF antenna I was thinking of putting up is only 1
sq.ft., I was just using 10 sq.ft. as an example. I did read about the
thrust bearing and agree with you on that.

Rod KI7CQ


At 1 square foot, you could save a lot of money and use a TV rotator. I have
a G&C on the UHF TV antenna. The same, or similar rotors are sold as ECG,
Radio Shack, and ChannelMaster. I think I paid $59 for it from Warren
Electronics. It does not seem to have the synchronization problem of the old
CD things that went cluck-clunk. My ham rotor is a Yaesu G1000, but it has 3
antennas on top of it, with a HyGain tribander the bottom most. I think the
AR40 started life as the CD22 TV rotator; looks like it has an updated
control box, though.

Tam/WB2TT